The Vela supernova exploded into a vast array of delicate filaments and veils of gas almost 11,000 years ago. Scientists took the data for the image with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), an instrument mounted to the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope in Chile. The telescope is operated by the National Science Foundation’s ground-based astronomy research institute, the National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab) At 1.3 gigapixels,